Connecticut western news., 1887-03-30
TIE NEWS OF A DAY.
Interesting Notes From All
 Sections of the World.
WHAT Is GOING ON AT HOME AND
 ABBOAn

At citizens indignation meeting in Buff falo, resolutions were passed against the over head telegraph wires. The condition of most of the patients st the hospital is hopeful. The steamer Idlewild, of Bridgeport, | crushed into the schooner A. w. Thompson, of ' Whi;estone, and her captain was knocked over- | board and ki led.
 There are indications that the Virginia | Legislature will try to make an honest dispo- sition of the debt question. | There was heavy frost in South Carolina ! and as far down south as Savannah, Ga. The plain meaning of this Is loss of from S400,- boO to s5oo, ,o6o to tn, farmers who are engaged | in the cultivation of strawberries and vege- | tables, which are annually shipped to New i York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. -Dr. E. W. Randall on trial at Hastings. | Nebraska, charged with aSsaultinS a girl II | years old named Hart, was shot in the head | and inSts stly killed iu the court room, by an unknown man, who escaped during the confu- ! sion
 1 Walter Ridgely, wealthy farmer living near Texsrkana, Ark shot and killed two ! ferrymen who were trying to force exorbitant | charges, and then killed two relatives of the i ferrymen who opened fire against him. An explosion at the works of the Baltimore United Oil Company, Baltimore, resulted in | the killing of two men, and the fatal injuring of two others
 | Missouri is accompanied, ss usual, with dan | gers, escapes and periodical change of that | huctuating rivers water-bed. | David Clark oi Stratford, Conn.,, has pre- 1 sented his farm of los acres to the Hartford Hospital and Old Peoples Home as monu- | ment to his son.
 | Thomas F. Measher, the murderer, after l being concealed from arrest for five months in his fathers house ut Bennington, Yt., has | t.ied of consumption.
 | A heavy white frost is reported through out the middle and northern section of Florida doing much damage to early vegetables. ! Throughout southeast Georsia the damage is reported to be very heavy. l -PaymaSter D. \. Bush of the United | States Army, while en route to Fort Mckinney | was robbed of S1, ,50i, with which he was to pay of the troops, When the stage arr we'd | at Antelope Springs a strang, seized the val | ise containing the money and mounted horse making his escape in spite of rain of bullets l sent after him.
 1 At wichit Falls, Tex. A. J. Smith, with his wife and two children, were drowned while 1 fishing.
 | two engines met in collision on the Penn | Sylvania tracks at Toledo, Ohio. The two en- 1 to make one engine lmost complete wreck, ! seriously injurinS five men.
 | At the Temple Enmanu-El in New York interesting memorial services were held in honor of MT. Beecher.
 The communists of New York celebrated l the sixteenth anniversary of the Paris Com nlune of !S1l. They spoke feelingly of their Chicago brethren.
 | The Central Labor Union of New York has demanded the immediate passage of the Tenement House bill without amendments.
 A narrow gauge rSiiroad has been com pleted to the summit of Lookout Mountain, the scene of Rockers fight above the clouds.
 |. II. fNl. 1 ten houses burned and the entire grounds: hotels and buildings were threatened. | The Grand Central Theatre at Troy, N. r., and several adjoining buildings were burned.
 Tt has finally been definitely settled that l she Mayhowcr will go to England this summer 1 to compete for the Queens Cup now held by the cutter Arrow, and also to take part in sev- 1 eral other races.
 | The Warsaw, N. T., salt works took fire l from the explosion of a lamp in an elevator. l The new block was entirely destroyed. together with the refinery. The loss is estimated d from sSa,o0o to S100, 900; insurance from S7o,- 900 to $S0,0cO.
 The 18th anniversary of Freemasonry in Maine was celebrated at Portland Tuesday The fire at Chautaqua, N T., on Sunday night destroyed ffty-five cottages. but none of 1 large structure were injured.
 An attempt was made at Holly, Mich. to 1 burn church in which large audience was gathered to hear an addr ss in favor of prohi- bition.
 Grace Wa'e is under arrest in St. Paul, l Mlnn., for inducing Jennie Paterson and Min Washburn, Wis. The girls say they were kept 1 in stockade, and that bloodhounds were put on the track of any who tried to escape.
 -Overthree thousand Irishmen assembled in Cooper Institute, New York, to protest against the threatened measur s of coercion | Parliament. Many distingui he'd speak rs were heard with interest and enthusiasm.
 - commander s. H. Davis, of the United States t. aiming ship Saratoga, reports that
 while at San Fernando, by the swamp ng of a small boat, Paymaster's Clerk Albert Taylor
 Cowie; J. Oates, apothecary; H. H. Hesse,
 armorer, and William Foster, coxswain, lost
 their lives.
 | -Colonel William L. Royal, of Richmond,
 Va, was imprisoned for non-payment of fine
 imposed on him by the Hustings Court for
 bringing suits in the United States Court
 against Grand Jurors for indicting him for
 barratry, in attempting to enforce the rights
 Of his clients, holders of State debt coupons. | Mir. Tester lived in the Indian Territc " ln small log cabin on a ranch. One day Eos
 ter saw mouse come up through the floor and
 run around 8 can of powder on the floor. He
 got small pistol and fired several times at the
 mouse. Finally one shot struck the can and exploded the powder, the result of which was
 that the house Was almost entirely wrecked
 two-year-old boy was killed outright, a ten.
 year-old girl was mortally wounded, and Mir
 and Mrs. Foster were both very badly hurt.
 Governor Wetmore, of Rhode Islanl, sc
 cepts his renomination.
 At Gloversv!lle, N Y, on Wednesday, the
 SHOW as high as the store fronts.
 -Ex-Police Justice Benjamin c. Wendell of
 New York, died at his residence on Wednesday
 Three churches in Newburg, N. T., were
 entered by burglars and their poor boxes
 robbed.
 The Indian who killed Lieut.. Mott and
 woundel Frank Porter, in Arizona, has beer
 captured.
 The schooner George S. Robertson wa:
 capsized in Chesapeake Bay, and her crew of
 live persons Were drowned. The town of Hancock, D laware county N l., has voted to compromise with the hold CTS of the towns Tai road bonds. ! A snow drift moro than a mile long, ani ranging from fifteen to twenty-five feet il
 tiepih, IS reported in Connecticut.
 | -Busine>s and financial circles in Philadel- | phia were startled by the revelations connect cd with the failure of James & John Hunter , 1 In the New York State Assembly the Crosb, High License bill, after the fiercest fight O . 1 inc session, was passed by vote of 70 yeas t 55 nays.
 Mary Nolan, the twelfth victim of tn
 Richmond Hotel fire, in Buffalo, died on Wed ? ..csday. From the first 1t was seen that he ! case was hopeless
 ? That s. vcral large railroad consolidation s will grow out of the enforcement of the Inter 2 2 slate Comm, rec law, and that the constitu :. tionality of the law will be tested, are rumor ! Of the day.
 A proposition to allow the voters of tn State to vote decenniallv upon the question O